Nickel Plate Road ordered twenty SD9 units in 1957, for use in the coalfields of the Nickel Plate's Wheeling District. These units were built without dynamic brakes, an unusual feature for the ... (more)
Robbed of engine, traction motors, generator etc. the famous Bicentennial unit is in a line of other shells who will not be preserved in a museum. I hope, in time, that 1776 will get new modern i... (more)
Norfolk and Western J 611 is being cleaned at Armour Yard in preparation for a weekend of Norfolk Southern steam excursions.
Purchased by the N&W and leased to the Erie-Lackawanna were 19 EMD SDP45s. Upon return to the N&W, the Conrail name was painted out and a small "NW" was added below the cab numbers. Or... (more)
N&W high-hood GP35 212 at Bellevue, Ohio on January 15, 1984. N&W units numbers 200 to 239 were built between 11/63 and 4/64.
Hurricane Henri makes for a dreary day, but Norfolk & Western Class J #611 makes up for it while charging into Carpenters Crossing on the Strasburg Rail Road.
Viewed from the Virginia Blue Ridge right-of-way, my favorite Norfolk & Western fan tripper backs across the trestle over the Tye River in Tye River, Virginia. The train has discharged any passeng... (more)
N&W 710 leads a GP9 - RS36 - GP9 - RS11 lashup on a westbound, crossing the NF&D at Suffolk, Virginia circa 1970. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo.
Norfolk & Western EMD GP30 No. 558, complete with a high-hood nose, sits at Peoria & Pekin Union Railway’s yard at Peoria in March 1984. Only Southern Railway and N&W GP30s came with the unique ... (more)
Oh....THAT intermodal...known by other names to those on the ground that morning, unkind names for sure. #611 returns to the NS mainlines with this run, dream come true for many...and seemed to o... (more)
N&W GP40 1356 - CRIP GP40 4704 - UP U50C 5033 lead a train into North Yard in Denver, Colorado in the mid 1970's. My father has several pictures of run-through N&W power in Denver. While the pow... (more)
475 pulling in to the steam shops after a day of pulling trains through the Amish farmlands back and forth.
